From: Paul Cockshott (wpc@DCS.GLA.AC.UK)
Date: Tue Sep 28 2004 - 10:28:23 EDT
Gerry -------------- As for social formations where the slave mode of production dominated, it makes no sense whatsoever to talk about the effort of slaves to leave one sector and enter another in search of a higher "return to labor." So (to repeat) which pre-capitalist social formation are you thinking of? -------------- Paul I missed this point of yours. What the slaves wanted to do was relatively, - though not absolutely -, unimportant. Slave owners could redeploy their slaves from one activity to another to bring in greater returns. This amounts to a mobility of labour. The reason why I say relatively unimportant, is that under Roman Law, though not under Anglo Saxon slavery, there existed the 'peculium' whereby slaves were allowed to engage in trade on a semi-autonomous basis which allowed some self directed labour mobility.
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